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Those underplayed, underrated cards are your treasures. Yours to share with the community. With your friends these cards even become your hallmark. Your signature.
Pick one. Play it. Share it.
On set, Brian shared with me these thoughts 👇.
How he could have taken the money from the Academic and "retired". But he didn't! Instead he created this new series that showcased the diversity of Magic's formats and community.
I windmill slammed the button to back Season 2.
Today I am talking about the Shuffle Up & Play Season 2 Kickstarter! Token packs! Sequentially numbered Challenge Coins! A chance to be a part of the set and more discussed in full here:
#MagicTheGathering
The experience of playing
@wizards_magic
over
@SpellTable
enables us to play with people across the world. However, it hoists additional cognitive load onto its players and those watching the game. I've found a few ways to make the game easier to track:
I played this for the first time. With a draw engine onboard and my opponents without answers it created a game where their actions didn't matter.
There game continued without friction. It was like I had plot armor or god mode enabled. I didn't enjoy the sensation.
The all legendary decks are no joke. Dies to removal certainly works as long as you get to the creature before …
they’ve made 4 Kambals (adding lose 8 life to that removal).
Or before they sacrifice either Dominus to create a gaggle of Domini.
@SaffronOlive
Coveted Jewel.
Cast it for {6}. Draw 3 cards. Tap it for {B}{B}{B}. Tap {1}. Cast Fateful Handoff. Give it away. Draw 6 cards. Attack unblocked trigger. Draw 3 cards. Use it for 3 mana in your post-combat main phase.
With
#DETRANS
on my timeline, I want to say that I've never regretted my choice. The hardest part has always been existing in a system and with people that could accept me but willing choose not to do it. They choose not to allow me and many others our freedom to purse happiness.
My personality tends to polarize people. I am fortunate that I love myself and have many people in my life that love me. I am happy that I have the chance to live as who I am; to be present. I appreciate hearing the adoration and the dissatisfaction.
Commander decks are so full of legendary creatures. So its time to take a moment to honor those creatures without a name and their tales unsung.
What (non-legendary) creature do you honor this day?
The
@TolarianCollege
discord has five commander games going right now. It's been this way for the last few hours.
A few months ago this didn't exist. Thanks to Brian,
@seraph_six
, moderators, and the community for making the _gathering_ happen.
Y’all keep saying you “upgraded” your commander decks.
Does that mean you’ve chosen cards that are even more considerate of the experiences of everyone involved? More I nter-game variance? A more positive communal atmosphere?
Or did you choose cards that kill faster?
Looking for a Commander Gameplay show on YouTube?
What show is missing from this list? While some of the stats are out of date, I want to keep list accurate.
My friend
@GracefulRaven
asked me to teach her to play magic. She chose a red deck. Is she doing it right?!
Also, be a 1/1 human and welcome her warmly to the game.
@your_priscylla
CMC 11RRR. Eminence — Whenever a creature attacks you, a planeswalker you control, or a battle you defned and Smaug is in the command zone add a trespasser cntrs on Smaug.
This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the number of trspr cntrs. When cast remove all trspr cntrs.
You // your favorite magic card
It finally happened. During my cam show someone said they recognized me from Shuffle Up and Play.
I think they saw my turtle. 😳 🐢
Commander focused design makes me want to play a stax deck that essentially undoes additional triggering and replacement effect.
I don’t want to stop the party, just all this indulgent extras.
The not-so-secret tech with Sol'Kanar the Tainted are backgrounds. Candlekeep Sage being one.
But why stop there. Why not create the ultimate commander you can share with the whole table. By the end people will be begging to play with Sol’Kanar.
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode's tour of 6 [of 10] pioneer decks piloted by charismatic players to a grooving soundtrack.
Season 2 innovates on Season 1's formula in every way.
I want to create a
#PDH
deck with Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost.
Constructed deck rules require 10 attractions in your deck. There are currently only 8 attractions at common rarity legal in commander.
I learned an assumed male default in Magic. I would use he/his/him when describing my opponents. Then I misgendered a very close friend of mine.
I hurt her. I apologized.
I became conscious about my actions and from that point I have worked at unlearning that bias.
Finished my prototype Spellslinger OBS tools for SpellTable games.
- Animated transitions between battlefields (OBS plugin)
- Text fuzzy card finder (NodeJS) loaded from decklists that powers a browser animation layer in OBS (THREE.js animation)
Ikoria is the horniest set in magic.
Is “Phyrexia: All Will Be One” the set with the most tentacles/tendrils or is that title still held by “Eldritch Moon”?
I’ve imagined a version of magic cards that exclusively uses iconography as shorthand for rules and effects.
This is a beautiful exaggeration of that concept.
Do you think Magic could support more icons?
An opponent places a removal spell down on the table in a commander game. They ask everyone at the table, “what target(s) should I select?”
Do you answer this question? How do you answer the question?
#CubeCon
is my favorite magic event.
It’s incredibly social, with a friendly competitive environment. Less pack/product cracking and more celebrating curation and creativity forged in the moment.
Thanks to community and
@MTGCubeCon
for making it great.
I experienced two incredible slices of pizza and the joy of placing curses on many players.
#MCMinneapolis
was incredible joy. Thank you all. I woke up and need a nap.
May you find beauty in your keeps and cheer in your torment!
Token cards and dry-erase cards like
@InfiniTokens
better indicate a permanent on the battlefield. This is clearer than using a face down card or a single die on the battlefield.
I asked
@TeferiMagic
to make the next magic event five days. Or at least make it feel like five days.
All of us there felt it ended far too soon after it began.
#MCMinneapolis
I’ve now played several more commander games at game stores and I’ve found there is rarely a pre-game discussion. Definitely less than through Discord and SpellTable.
pic that makes you sat "wow, I'm so pretty!"
Not a pic, buuuuut, It's a self portrait that communicates a lot of feels inside and out <3 I've gotta do another one soon <3
Clearly mark zones like graveyards, exile, and spells on the stack. This brings clarity and flexibility over relying on “understood" positional conventions. It helps you better manage cards in exile forever, for the turn, until next turn, or until end of combat.
This episode premieres at 1pm PST! Come hang out in the chat with everyone and then watch alongside us as "The Four Doctors Play Commander"
--->
#MagicTheGathering
Playing Magic with some friends today. We all are bringing boosters as gifts. The local store only carries Ravnica Remastered boosters priced at 8USD per back. 20 cards in the entire set meet or exceed this value.
So I repacked some boosters with better value.
During the
@TolarianCollege
Shuffle Up and Play game I gave
@BobbieChristxne
cards (at the cost of 2 life). It wasn't a part of my plan to kill her, it was to give her another chance to get back into the game on her next turn.
Does anyone else do this?
After
#mcminneapolis
it’s been hard to return to SpellTable play.
❤️ I miss all the physical cues and the inability to carry on simultaneous communication.
❤️ There is also this air to play embodied by all. A party. A celebration.
Photo by
@spectaclesinblu
. Cropped by me.
I would have stopped playing
@wizards_magic
commander format over
@SpellTable
and in-person if it wasn't for
@InfiniTokens
. They enable me to play the game. Not just nice to have. But play the game!
InfiniTokens Dry Erase Tokens are the perfect gaming accessory for MTG, RPGs and more. These dry erase cards and counters will help make your gameplay easier!
Store thousands of token options in a single deck box. Anything you need, any time you need it!
PDH is an uncommon creature, legendary or not, with 99 commons.
Artisan is an uncommon legendary with with 99 uncommons and commons.
This breaks parity.
Here’s the thing. If a magic event was going on everyday I would love it (for you). But I wouldn’t be there everyday.
Most days I’d pack you some snacks, ensure you’ve got enough cash for a sealed event, and drop you off at the front door.
What is an
#MTGAmbassador
? What core values do they embody? How are they selected? How are their terms of service measured? What are their reponsibilites? What is there compensation?
Without any of those questions answered I don’t understand what makes any of it official.
The
#MCVegas
dance party committed two sins:
- no free water to drink
- songs played and ended but not mixed; one DJ transitioned to another and the music stopped.
You should crush on your friends. A little. A lot. All the time. Sometimes.
Because I’ve certainly had relationships where I’ve tolerated them or even low-key disliked them and that’s pretty cringe.
#MCMinneapolis
felt safe. I walked through downtown after sunrise and far into the early AM.
A few people came up to me and immediately started talking about how I was good for representation.
The CheckYourBulk podcast is on hold for an indefinite period as
@BobbieChristxne
focuses on her work for the
@TolarianCollege
channel.
Thanks to all of you for watching and listening.
Looking to sell these cards.
Buy more of them and negotiate with me as I could use the money more than the cardboard.
Most are lightly played. I'll send them protected in a bubble mailer with a little video of me packaging it up.
It’s time to celebrate
@b101nf0matr
! He is a treasure to the community, so we commissioned
@listenerelf
to capture that very fact.
We have a few to give away. Reply with some kind words about
@b101nf0matr
and you have chance to have one shipped to you.
Check out time on this site was a few months ago when Musk checked in. I stayed a few extra days. Today I finally packed all my toiletries and ready to catch my plane.
DMs sent to email. I wish the rest of you a lot of fun. Swim out into the discourse and watch the world die.
For creatures with power and toughness modified by several effects, display the calculated power and toughness with a dry-erase card or with dice. This helps as enchantments/equipment are not readable when placed under other permanents.
Trackers for floating mana, recurring effects from cards, or card count in zones help communicate the state of the game more clearly for every player.
This also provides additional opportunities to stylize your deck further in unique ways.
I’m unmoved by Commander Masters. The chase cards are often at a power level I don’t often seek (in large quantity).
I’m riding the high of building
#PDH
and
#Oathbreaker
and enjoying the price drops for the recently released LTR and LTC cards.